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old_astrologer skrev:
> --- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "eamoniski"
> <robertg@...> wrote:
>> Does anyone know of an example where c-cedilla was used
>> in a form of *Latin*?
>
> According to Dauzat's Dictionnaire etymologique, the
> cedilla was invented in Spain in the fifteenth century. By
> that time the distinction between Latin and the venacular
> had been hardened by the Renascence, so I doubt if it
> would have been used for Latin.
That's not quite correct. See
<http://wiki.frath.net/Cedilla>.
The � originated in the shape of z in the so-called
Visigothic script. The reference to the 15th century is
perhaps that it was then the � was adopted in French
orthography.
Of course in a Latin text written in the Visigothic script
the form would be used, but it would just be z.
I'll try to find a real Visigothic z to upload.
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